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Balochistan Rights Crisis: Three Youths Detained Amid Enforced Disappearances

Pakistani security forces have detained three political workers in an illegal raid in Quetta. Human rights organizations are condemning what they call enforced disappearances targeting democratic activists. The incident reflects a broader pattern of human rights violations across Balochistan province. Rights groups are urging international pressure on Pakistan to end these practices.

Key Points: Pakistan Forces Detain Balochistan Youths as Rights Groups Condemn

  • Three political workers forcibly disappeared during illegal raid in Quetta
  • Pakistani forces conducted warrantless search of entire room
  • Rights groups report surge in illegal detentions across Balochistan
  • International community urged to pressure Pakistan over human rights violations
  • Baloch Women Forum calls incident attack on democratic activism
  • Detainees shifted to unknown locations without family notification
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Human rights bodies condemned 'illegal detention' of three youths by Pakistani forces in Balochistan

Human rights organizations condemn illegal detention of three political workers in Balochistan by Pakistani forces amid surge in enforced disappearances across the province.

"Such a trend is catastrophic because the state of Pakistan and its notorious law enforcement agencies are intentionally deteriorating the democratic and peaceful political values - Paank"

Quetta, Nov 7

Several human rights organisations condemned the “ illegal detention” of three youths by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, as the cycle of persecution continues amid an escalating wave of enforced disappearances across the province.

Paank, the Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department, mentioned that Salman Baloch, the Deputy organiser of the National Democratic Party (NDP), along with two others, Deleep Das and Sahir Baloch, were forcibly disappeared during an “illegal raid” conducted on Thursday night at Bolan Plaza on Brewery Road in the provincial capital Quetta. The rights body alleged that Pakistani security forces searched the entire room without a warrant and took away all three roommates.

Paank further stated that there has been a surge in “illegal detentions” of political workers in Balochistan regardless of their backgrounds.

“Such a trend is catastrophic because the state of Pakistan and its notorious law enforcement agencies are intentionally deteriorating the democratic and peaceful political values and scope in the region. We have already raised the ill intentions of the state and its institutions, but they are continuously increasing their irregularities and illegal practices,” Paank mentioned.

The rights body urged the international community to press Pakistan over its continuous human rights violations in Balochistan, including enforced disappearances.

Condemning the incident, the Baloch Women Forum (BWF) described the extrajudicial custody of Salman Baloch and his companions from Quetta as a continuation of Pakistan’s tactics to curb democratic political activism in Balochistan.

“We have observed a surge in state’s irregular and illegal acts to further deteriorate the already shrinking space of democratic political activism in Balochistan with the forced and illegal custody of Salman Baloch, the Central Deputy Organizer of the fellow-working party, the National Democratic Party (NDP), and his fellows, Deleep Das and Sahir Baloch, from Quetta last night (November 6) at around 3 in the midnight. Three of the detainees were shifted to an unknown location, which is neither disclosed to their families nor friends,” the BWF stated.

The BWF expressed solidarity with the National Democratic Party and called on the international community to take notice of the “direct barbarism” on democratic political activism in Balochistan.

“Their abductions are opposed to law, ethics, and an attack on the integrity of Baloch society at large,” it stated.

- IANS

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Priya S
Notice how one of the detained is Deleep Das - probably from the Hindu minority community. Pakistan systematically targets minorities while pretending to be progressive. The world needs to see their true face.
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Arjun K
While I condemn Pakistan's actions in Balochistan, I hope our media gives equal coverage to human rights issues in our own country too. We should practice what we preach. Justice should be universal.
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Sarah B
Reading this from Canada. The Baloch struggle deserves global attention. India should raise this issue strongly in international forums. Basic human rights are being violated daily in Balochistan.
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Karthik V
"Illegal raids without warrants" - this is Pakistan's standard operating procedure in Balochistan. The families don't even know where their loved ones are taken. Absolutely barbaric! 😡
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Michael C
The international community's silence on Balochistan is deafening. If this happened anywhere else, there would be sanctions and UN resolutions. Double standards in human rights monitoring are obvious here.

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